Florals, landmarks and the female form will be presented to Red Deer viewers during February’s First Friday receptions at local art galleries.
Susan Delaney’s acrylic, collage and mixed-media paintings will be featured until March 15 in the At Ease show at the Riverlands Studio and Gallery, 5123, 48th St. Delaney’s works are inspired by “gesture, landscape, collage, abstraction, memory, home and history.” A First Friday reception will be held Feb. 3 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The Floral Female Connection, art by Sharon Wright, is showing in the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library, downtown. Wright portrays women of all ages in all facets of life, “especially rendered in the style of female floral artists from the past.” There will be an opening reception Friday, Feb. 3, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Gallery is operated by the Red Deer Arts Council.
Cathy Fee’s art show, The Brush Decides, is on at the Red Deer Arts Council’s New Community Gallery until Feb. 15. Painting inspires a sense of freedom for Fee, who now uses a wheelchair but used to rise a motorcycle. “Painting lets me fly again.” There will be a First Friday opening from 5-7 p.m.
Digital photos by Peter Greendale are showing in the Found Light Exhibit at the Viewpoint Gallery until Feb. 24. “I look for strong visual elements; colour, shapes, forms, textures… which become the raw materials for the construction of the image,” said Greendale, who uses the camera’s viewfinder as a framing device. The gallery will be open until 8 p.m. on First Friday.
Landmarks: A Sense of Place, featuring art by Carol Lynn Gilchrist and Wendy Meeres continues at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until March 11. The two artists explore built and natural environments in the region. There will be no First Friday reception, but the museum will remain open until 8 p.m., also showing various artifacts in the Upon Further Reflection, Highlights from the Past 50 Years display.
Other art exhibits in Red Deer and area include:
- Sculptor Trenton Thomas Leach is exhibiting dimensional works made of glass, metal, wood and stone in the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre, 5227 C and E Trail until Feb. 21. Leach, who teaches metal sculpture for the Series summer arts programs at Red Deer Polytechnic, draws inspiration from nature, travel, painters and musicians.
- Members of the Contextural Fibre Arts Co-operative are showing their works in Urban Nature show at the Marjorie Wood Gallery in the Kerry Wood Nature Centre until Feb. 17.
- Brad Olstad is showing his mixed-media works in the Velvet Olive Lounge this month.
- Audrey Rits is displaying her mixed-media works in the Corridor Community Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Recreation Centre.